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Past projects 16

• Wholesome Snacks for Wellness Wednesdays

  Funded Sep 19, 2024

  Thank you for your generous donation. My students were so happy to have snacks that they could enjoy on our Wellness Wednesdays. We've been learning about self-care, community care, and the different ways to be well. The snacks have definitely provided physical nourishment.

  It seems like the snacks are a small thing, but for many students, it represents care because the snacks are something tangible. They often arrive to class hungry, so being able to meet that need means so much. For students who do not eat throughout the day, the snacks provided an energy boost they need to get through the rest of the day.

  The snacks you provided made our Wellness Wednesday complete. We appreciate your support.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation and 7 other donors.

• Charting Big Ideas: Help Our Leaders Get a Refresh!

  Funded Aug 14, 2024

  Thank you so much for your generous donation. Having the supplies to be able to brainstorm for our projects and visually represent our learning has been so helpful.

  We've been able to draw diagrams, create task lists, and conduct class votes because we have have the materials we need.

  The most recent project that my students were very proud of was the Halloween Haunted House and Festival. Each class planned a specific area of the haunted house and created the blueprint on their chart paper, so that the other students could help to build it. They used the chart paper to create the blueprint and we posted them in the room, so that they could use the blueprint as their guide.

  It was wonderful to see students use the blueprint as their model. They continued to reference the blueprint throughout the building process. We appreciate your generosity. The supplies have helped our class create the visuals that help us learn.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Gates Foundation and 16 other donors.

• Planting Seeds for our People

  Funded Mar 7, 2024

  Thank you for your generous donation. We were able to paint beautiful terracotta pots and plant vegetable seeds for families. Our families were so excited to receive their plants. Most of them chose the cilantro plants because they said that it was an herb that they used in their daily meals.

  Students learned how to start a plant from seeds, so that they would be able to start their own container gardens at their homes. We learned about how you are able to grow a garden in a very small space and how porches, balconies, and stoops are great places to start container gardens.

  These are important lessons that students can use in their lives. Now, many of our students can have access to fresh vegetables because they know how to grow them on their own. Your donation has helped to teach these lessons.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Allstate Foundation.

• Composting is for Cool Kids!

  Funded May 9, 2024

  Thank you so much for your generous donation. Our students have learned so much about the composting process because we now have the materials to compost at our school in our school garden. We use the compost tumbler in our garden and have been able to sprinkle the finished compost in the garden beds.

  During our S.T.E.A.M. festival, our students did a compost demonstration that other students on campus were able to participate in. Students got to choose a piece of fruit to eat and then instead of discarding their fruit peel/core in the trash, they added their fruit peel/core to the compost tumbler and got to spin it to turn the compost.

  The photos you see are of our students in the garden. Since we started the project, we've been able to use our own compost to grow and harvest our own vegetables. We could not have done this without your support.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

  This classroom project was brought to life by Young Sheldon on CBS and 9 other donors.

• Creating Creative Community

  Funded Oct 26, 2023

  My students are so excited to have the opportunity to be creative and paint on real canvases. They loved all the paint colors and chose the words that they wanted to paint for the affirmations that we would place in classrooms and around our school. They want their peers to be reminded that "You are Loved, Brave, Caring, Brilliant, Unique, Beautiful, Smart, Inspiring, Patient, Hardworking, Patient, Special, Trustworthy." Students also wrote notes to accompany the affirmations, so that teachers and students would understand why they chose those particular words.

  We've also been able to use the art supplies to make posters for the upcoming events at our school. We recently had a successful winter fair January, we have our Black History Month Celebration next week, and our Spring Festival next month. Students were able to make signs and posters, so that students on campus know that we have some fun activities that they can be a part of.

  Your donation is helping us to create a sense of belonging at our school. We appreciate your generous donation.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community & an Anonymous Partner and 16 other donors.

• Summer Time Self Care

  Funded Sep 1, 2022

  Thank you for making a generous donation, so that my students could have care packages that included copies of The Alchemist, their own journal, gel pens, and motivational cards. They are in a pivotal time in their lives as they apply for college and make plans for life after high school, so this book comes at the perfect time for them. A few students finished reading and said they were following their "personal legend". I hope that the book reminds them that they are each unique with a special purpose in this world.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

• Ready Readers and Writers

  Funded Aug 31, 2022

  Thank you so much for your donation. We just started the new semester and many of my students said that what they were most proud of from last semester was their interactive notebook. The composition notebooks you donated became a valuable resource that we would use everyday in our class.

  It's been great for students to have a place where they can document their learning. I also love it because students are less likely to lose their important notes and handouts. We are continuing to use our notebooks this semester and I hope it is a resource that they will use when they go to eighth grade. Thank you for gifting us the supplies necessary for learning!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

• Noteworthy Note-taking & Organization

  Funded Sep 9, 2021

  Thank you for donating to our project "Noteworthy Note-taking and Organization". It has made a huge difference to have students keep all of their assignments in their notebooks. Everyday, students know the routine. They pick up their notebook from the bookshelf in the back of the class, go to their seats, and begin their do-nows. On Mondays, we usually take some lecture notes and students use these notes for their quiz later in the week.

  When the notebooks arrived in the mail, students spent time personalizing the notebooks by decorating the covers with words that describe them, a symbol that represents them, and a motto or saying that they want to remember. Students said they appreciate that they can keep all of their work in their notebook in class and that they can use the notebook on their quizzes.

  Staying organized with our notebooks is one way we have been able to be consistent, which is so needed in a time full of so many changes. Thank you for helping to make this possible.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

  This classroom project was brought to life by Clorox and 5 other donors.

• Excellence Through Ethnic Studies

  Funded Sep 23, 2021

  We appreciate your donations to our class Ethnic Studies library. We spent most of last semester studying Indigenous Resistance and Resilience and our library helped me to plan and prepare lessons that were engaging and interactive. Two of the books that you donated -- Our History Is The Future by Nick Estes and We Are the Land by Akins Bauer -- were an important parts of our unit. We spent a lot of time learning about the many ways that Indigenous people have resisted and continue to resist to protect themselves, their land, and their traditions. Nick Estes's book helped us understand how the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a very long history of resistance.

  The photos I included are examples of from some of the photo essays students created where they reflected on their personal connections to what we learned. We will continue to study the books that you donated to our library. I am grateful because our Ethnic Studies library is now an essential part of our class.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Liza

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 9 other donors.